Parliamentary questions

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

262. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18318/13]

School Enrolments

Pearse Doherty

49. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a timeframe for when he intends to publish legislation to amend the Education Welfare Act to ensure fairer school enrolment policies; and if he will provide details on the way in which he plans to guarantee a more equitable admission policy to schools. [17574/13]

School Guidance Counsellors

Pearse Doherty

57. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the more marginalised children are suffering the worst effects of cuts to guidance counselling in schools; and his plans to have guidance and counselling staffed in an ex-quota manner. [17573/13]

Child Care Costs

Pearse Doherty

135. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the proposals she has to improve the level of child care and early education cost supports, particularly for parents on low to middle incomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17269/13]

Youth Services Provision

Pearse Doherty

166. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list the funding allocations for each of the past five years for each funded youth project in the city of Dublin and throughout the State; her plans to secure additional funding for these projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17281/13]

Employment Rights

Pearse Doherty

209. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will re-examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford with respect to the failure of a previous employer to provide a P45. [17612/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

219. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the overall cost to the State of the bailout of Permanent TSB if senior bondholders had been wiped out in March 2011. [16124/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

220. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the overall cost to the State of the bailout of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society if senior bondholders had been wiped out in March 2011. [16122/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

221. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the overall cost to the State of the bailout of Allied Irish Banks and the Educational Building Society if senior bondholders had been wiped out in March 2011. [16123/13]

Economic Growth Rate

Pearse Doherty

238. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the economy is back in recession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16281/13]

IMF Loan Issues

Pearse Doherty

239. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 21 March 2013, if he will confirm that the State is paying a higher rate of interest on its borrowings from the International Monetary Fund than the rate of interest nationally applying to similarly-dated sovereign bonds; and the consideration that has been given by his Department and the National Treasury Management Agency to the early repayment of IMF loans through the issuance of sovereign debt. [16282/13]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

240. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the stake held in Bank of Ireland by the American group of investors (details supplied); the consideration paid for that stake; the stake held by the State in Bank of Ireland; and the consideration paid for that stake. [16283/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

241. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the additional provision that will need to be made in the accounts of Bank of Ireland; if that bank has to write down the value of non-performing loans to the value of the underlying security; and if he will confirm that such a write-down will result in demands to the State to provide additional capital. [16284/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

242. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that following the recent sale by KBC and Banco Santander of their 21.4% share in the Polish bank, Bank Zachodni WBK, for €1.2bn, that Allied Irish Banks in which he holds 99.8% of the shares, sold its 70% share in the same bank for €2.94bn in 2010. [16285/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

243. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the current deficit in the pension scheme of Bank of Ireland, in which he owns 15% of the shares and in which he owns a substantial preference shareholding; and if addressing the deficit may result in demands to the State to provide additional capital. [16286/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

244. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the recent publication of the report and accounts for Bank of Ireland for 2012, in which the Chief Executive Officer confirmed that he had waived €67,000 of his remuneration, if he has sought waivers of salary at Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16287/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

245. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his position regarding the provision of additional capital to Bank of Ireland, should that bank decide to pursue a new rights issue. [16288/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

250. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 179, 180, 188 and 227 of 26 March 2013, to which he, in part, responded that the Eurogroup advised against this proposal, but it recognised that fiscal measures such as taxes and levies are matters for individual member states, whether in a programme of assistance or not, if he will provide an assessment of the benefit that would have flowed to the State if a 99% tax or levy had been imposed on senior unguaranteed bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society from March 2011. [16361/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

251. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 26 March 2013, the way advertised threat of forcing banks to write down the value of problem loans to the value of the underlying security is any different to pre-existing requirements under International Financial Reporting Standards and particularly International Accounting Standard 39. [16362/13]

Mortgage Resolution Processes

Pearse Doherty

252. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 26 March 2013, in which he stated that banks have been given targets of proposing sustainable mortgage solutions to 20% of mortgage loans that are 90 days in arrears by 30 June 2013, and that this would equate to 20% of 94,488 PDH and 28,421 BTL loans by reference to arrears at 31 December 2012, his views on whether it is feasible that banks can propose solutions to 25,000 mortgage accounts in the forthcoming three months, equivalent to 2,000 per week or 400 per working day; and if the Central Bank of Ireland will be monitoring progress on reaching targets on an ongoing basis. [16363/13]